Book Reviews
Monika Saxena, Women and the Puranic Tradition in India, Routledge, Delhi, 2019, 306 pages, Rs 1495 Shalin Jain, Identity, Community and State: The Jains under the Mughals, Primus, Delhi, 2017, pages 402 pages, Rs 1095.
Book Review : A Masterpiece for This Fractious Day
Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya, Representing the Other? Sanskrit Sources and theMuslims, Eighth to Fourteenth Century, Delhi: Primus Books, 2017. A brilliant essay in historiography, Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya’s Representing the Other? Sanskrit Sources and the Muslims, Eighth to Fourteenth Century is a bitter pill…
Book Review – Delhi in Transition, 1821 and Beyond Mirza Sangin Beg’s Sair ul Manazil
Shama Mitra Chenoy (edited, translated and annotated), Delhi in Transition, 1821 and Beyond Mirza Sangin Beg’s Sair ul Manazil, Oxford University Press, 2018, 320 pages, Rs 995 In the discipline of history, working with primary sources in Persian is a…
Book Reviews – How a Soviet philosopher who stoodup for dialectics continues to inspire, London: Real Democracy Movement
Corinna Lotz, Finding Evald Ilyenkov: How a Soviet philosopher who stood up for dialectics continues to inspire, London: Real Democracy Movement, 2019, 58 pages Among the few good bookshops in New Delhi in the last century, PPH (People’s Publishing House)…
Book Review – The Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha 1929–1942: A Study of an Indian Peasant Movement
Walter Hauser, The Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha 1929–1942: A Study of an Indian Peasant Movement, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2019, 265 pages, Rs 1295 Following the publication last year of an English translation of the memoirs of the…
Book Review – A Step towards Critical Ambedkar Studies Movement
Conversations with Ambedkar: 10 Ambedkar Memorial Lectures, Edited by Valerian Rodrigues, Tulika Books–Ambedkar University Delhi. Book Reivew by Moggallan Bhartiteaches Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), along with Tulika Books, has recently brought out a collection of the first ten Ambedkar Memorial…
Book Review: Making Sense of Tribal and Dalit Exclusion in Colonial Orissa
Biswamoy Pati, Tribals and Dalits in Orissa: Towards a Social History of Exclusion, c. 1800–1950, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2019, 221 pages, Rs 945. This posthumously published book consists of six chapters, of which three have been published earlier…
Book Review : History of Precolonial India: Issues and Debates
Hermann Kulke, History of Precolonial India: Issues and Debates, English edition revised and edited by Bharabi Prasad Sahu, New Delhi : OxfordUniversity Press, 2018, 383 pages, Rs 1195 The book was originally published in the year 2005 as a volume…
Marx, the Digital Divide and Hegemony
We live in a globalised and digitised age. Some of us receive news of friends through the internet, transact our purchases through the internet, conduct businesses through the internet, even receive our medicine through the internet. The richest four persons…
Book Review – Kama Maclean, A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text
Kama Maclean, A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text, Penguin India, Gurgaon, 2016, xvii+305 pages, Rs 599. The historiography on militant and revolutionary anti-colonialism in India is witnessing a dawn of a new era. For decades,…